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January 2011 Archive (64 posts)

Pokemon Cosplay: Misty (Tomoyo) | Come on, admit it. Who didn't watch Pokemon when they were younger? (If you still do, I don't want to hear it though). Anyway, today's Cosplay Sundae reconnects us with the lovable and fiery Misty, courtesy of cosplayer Tomoyo!
In the anime incarnation, Misty is the ... (Cosplay)

Joke: Deaf Drunk | After following an erratically driving man for some time, the cop eventually manages to pull him over.
"So," says the cop to the driver, where have ya been?"
"Why, I've been to the pub of course," slurs the drunk.
"Well," says the cop, "it looks like you've had ... (Jokes & other Funny Stuff)

JavaScript to Confirm a File Download | A confirmation dialogue is handy when you want to make sure that the selected action is actually meant to take place and isn't just the result of an accidental click. Of course, achieving this is super easy thanks to JavaScript's built in dialog box functions, ... (CodeUnit)

First Impressions: Zombie-Loan | The black ring. When it appears around a person's neck, it is the sign that they will soon die. Invisible to most, only those with the special ability of the Shinigami Eye can see it and thus predict the future.
One such possessor is Michiru Kita, ... (Anime | My Reviews)

Purchase Electricity and Pay Fines Online | I like doing my administrative things online. Who doesn't? No more queues, frustrating tellers, being shunted from one desk to the other. And of the online services which I use the most here at home, buying electricity from the awesome payCity definitely ranks as right ... (CodeUnit)

Ryan's Call to Arms | I'll admit the following call to arms e-mail sent out by Ryan to Karl, Terrance and myself in recruiting for Tuesday evening's upcoming XBOX FIFA get together had Chantelle and I both chuckling out aloud.
(Though she had been laughing far louder earlier on in the ... (My Life)

How to Set MP4 Video Tags for Your iPod | Now that I enjoy watching animated television shows while I work out at gym, the process of converting my DVDs to iPod MP4 video files has begun in earnest! One of the last problems I encountered dealt with the lack of info tags on my ... (CodeUnit)

Covered: Zatanna 8 (Zatanna) | Don't puppets scare you? They scare me. Those lifeless eyes in those soulless, disproportional bodies. It is therefore no wonder to find that DC's not so premier magician in fishnet stockings, Zatanna, is also pretty scared of these guys.
And as for proof, I present to ... (Comic Book Art | Comic Books)

Ubuntu: How to Delete a MySQL Database via the Terminal | To delete a database from a MySQL server instance, we need to make a DROP DATABASE call against the server.
First, fire up MySQL in your terminal and login as an administrator account with:
mysql -u root -p
You will be prompted for your root password before ... (CodeUnit)

Joke: Death by Drinking | Brenda O'Malley is home making dinner, as per usual, when Tim Finnegan arrives at her door.
"Brenda, may I come in?" he asks. "I've somethin' to tell ya".
"Of course you can come in, you're always welcome, Tim. But where's my husband?"
"That's what I'm here to be ... (Jokes & other Funny Stuff)

Ubuntu: How to Checkout from a SVN Repository via the Terminal | To create an initial SVN checkout from a SVN repository on your Ubuntu machine via the terminal is a pretty simple affair thanks to the pretty standard svn checkout call.
To checkout, enter:
svn checkout https://svn.server:port/svn/project/trunk /home/projectdir
(Obviously you would swap out all the relevant details to match ... (CodeUnit)

Black: The Birth of Evil | While fleeing a hit man through the deserted alleys of Denver, a bullet clips Thomas Hunter's head. He escapes with this life, but later passes out from his wounds... and his world is swallowed by black.
From the dark comes an amazing reality of another world ... (Comic Books | My Reviews)

Under the Watchful Pink Hippo | Try as she may, there is just no escape for little floppy Jessica Lotter from the watchful gaze of the mysterious Pink Hippo.
No one knows where the enigmatic hippo hails from, nor can anyone hazard a guess to its abilities or even its intent, but ... (Jessica)

Baby Jessica and Her Baby Elephant Feet | As you can see from the photo above, with Mommy Chantelle holding foot and card together while Daddy Craig furiously snaps away in the hopes of capturing a half decent photo before Jessie is squirming around again, our little dark red head girl is growing ... (Jessica)

Toggle a Div's Visibility with jQuery | To toggle an element in terms of visibility, like a DIV for example, is pretty easy with jQuery and its ultra nifty toggle() function.
First, simply declare the div you wish to hide and show, give it an ID and if you want, set the initial ... (CodeUnit)

Safe with Daddy | As you can see, there is no way my little floppy Martian dribble monster can't be feeling safe and secure when she is in Daddy's arms, shielded by his broad shoulders and hidden from a Mommy who might just want to catch her and change ... (Jessica)

In the Arms of Grandpa Montgomery | Passed out in the arms of a very proud Grandpa Montgomery. Obviously scaling his tummy is pretty hard work for my little floppy dribble monster! :)
(Note, just about all family members capable of holding Jessica have now held her. Honestly, she must be starting to ... (Jessica)

Rebuild of Evangelion Cosplay: Mari Illustrious Makinami (Yunmao) | With the recent attempt to update the all time anime favourite, Neon Genesis Evangelion, certain new characters needed to be introduced in order to keep things fresh. One of these characters to pop up just happened to be another female pilot - Mari Illustrious Makinami!
Rebuild ... (Cosplay)

Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011 | So we are now well into 2011, and looking back at 2010 I can't help but wonder how on Earth any forthcoming year will ever be able to compete with what was an absolutely monumental year in my life.
Outside of it being the year in ... (My Life)

SQL: Toggle 1 and 0 Value in an Update SQL Statement | I tend to use a lot of tinyint columns as controllers for my database-held objects, usually sticking to the convention of 1 means on and 0 means off. In other words, the perfect target for a SQL toggle statement!
In order to toggle update a value ... (CodeUnit)

How to Cut a Prem or Newborn Baby's Nails | Hey what do you know, at last Jessica is out of the minus X days old state, having finally passed her expected due date even though according to the calendar she has been with us for two whole months already! :)
Anyway, the point is that ... (Jessica)

Internet Explorer (IE) and the Cached .js File | Internet Explorer and pretty much all other modern web browsers make use of silent caching in order to streamline user experience. Of course, caching is a marvellous tool when needed, but also a frustrating one when you don't want it turned on. Enter the humble ... (CodeUnit)

Not Quite Out and About Just Yet | (Wow, it is proving to be quite difficult to get in any sort of blogging now that Jessica is back home with us. Apologies, but this one was meant to be pushed out on Monday already!)
So another gorgeous summer's weekend here in Gordon's Bay has ... (My Life)

How to Split a MP4 Video File for Your iPod | At the moment I quite enjoying watching television shows on my iPod while working out at gym. Of course to get these television show episodes on my little iPod, I first need to rip them off my DVDs and convert them into MP4 - which ... (CodeUnit)

Ubuntu: How to Search for a Folder via the Terminal | Often you know that there exists a specific directory on your system, but you just can't seem to locate it anywhere. Enter the useful find statement, a generic workhorse that you will most certainly find on almost all *nix distributions!
To locate a specific directory by ... (CodeUnit)

Ubuntu: Get Yesterday's Date for a Bash Script | Date work often plays an important part in automated bash scripts, and as such, it is pretty useful to be able to calculate yesterday's date for your variable work.
Now we know in order to get the current date we could use this:
NOW="$(date +"%Y/%m/%d")"
Using this info, ... (CodeUnit)

Ubuntu: Import a SQL Dump into MySQL | The quickest way to import a properly generated SQL dump containing structure and table definitions plus data into a MySQL database is to simply pipe the file directly to the powerful mysql command function via a terminal window.
The command would look something like this:
mysql ... (CodeUnit)

Uchuu no Stellvia Cosplay: Yayoi Fujisawa (Chocoball) | 2003 saw the launch of the popular Uchuu no Stellvia or Stellvia of the Universe anime series, and this week sees us celebrate it by bringing to you Yayoi Fujisawa, eagerly played by cosplayer Chocoball.
2167 AD marked the destruction of Earth, at the hands of ... (Cosplay)

Covered: 2000AD 1384 (Shaun of the Dead) | Shaun of the Dead is the rightful cult king in terms of British zombie films, finding that perfect balance between horror, zombie, romance, black humour and all out laughs.
As a tie in with the movie, director Edgar Wright and main honcho Simon Pegg joined forces ... (Comic Book Art | Comic Books)

Joke: Breast Fight | Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp.
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, ... (Jokes & other Funny Stuff)

How to Install Subversion (SVN) in Ubuntu | To install subversion (or SVN if you like keeping things short) is pretty simple to achieve in Ubuntu (as with just about everything else).
First, open up a terminal window and enter:
sudo apt-get install subversion
After entering in your password, the system will automatically grab the necessary ... (CodeUnit)

Funakoshi Purple Belt Status Achieved | Purple. Not the most manly colour I have to admit. Nevertheless, it feels good now find it snugly wrapped around my waist.
In all the excitement that made up the last couple of months of my life, it completely slipped my mind to mention that back ... (Martial Arts | My Life)

Ubuntu: How to Restart the Cron Service | After making changes to your crontab file, be it the sudo or standard version of the file, you will need to restart the appropriate cron service. The command line sequence to achieve this is as follows:
sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
The system should indicate that the cron has ... (CodeUnit)

Danger Damen | Well apart from the hordes of players that couldn't make it in the end, last night (and because I'm taking a while to crank out these posts nowadays, this means Tuesday 28 December) ended up being quite enjoyable - thanks to the discovery of some ... (My Life)

Ubuntu: How to Force a Silent Cron | By default, cron actions that produce output generates emails that get sent to the system administrator. If we don't particularly want this behaviour, we need to terminate our function calls with a specific character sequence, which looks as follows:
5 * * * * /usr/mine/script > ... (CodeUnit)

Ubuntu: The Basics of Bash Scripting | A bash script is simply put a file containing a list of commands to be executed by the bash shell (remember, there are a number of different shells available in the Unix world).
The very simplest scripts contain a set of commands that you ... (CodeUnit)

Royal Black Guard | Seeing as our little Jessica had finally joined us after her nearly two month long stay at the hospital neonatal intensive care unit, New Year's Eve 2011 promised nothing more than a night in with Chantelle and my baby girl, meaning of course as the ... (Sketches, Paint & Photoshop)

jQuery: Livequery and the Hover Event | Before jQuery's native live() and delegate() functions came into being, the default for handling binding on late generated DOM elements was to make use of the excellent Brandon Aaron plugin LiveQuery (otherwise known as Live Query). Today we look at how one handles the hover ... (CodeUnit)

Screenshot Saturday: Mezzo DSA (Episode 1) | Mikura, Kurokawa, and Harada are the 3 members of the Danger Service Agency (DSA). Mikura is the brawn of the group, Harada is the brains, and Kurokawa is just a bitter ex-cop who likes to think he's in charge. They'll take on any job as ... (Anime)

GUI Management of your Ubuntu Server with Webmin | There is nothing more daunting than being given an Ubuntu Server to manage if you have never ever delved into the world of command line (or should that be terminal line) Linux. Thankfully though, someone saw it fit to lend a helping hand to these ... (CodeUnit)